THE first tourist to the balmy island of Cuba, went ashore Oct. 28, 1492, sword in one hand ... A quarter of a century after Columbus’ first voyage to the New World, Cuba’s gold and precious ...

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port ...

Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus remains a subject of intrigue and debate worldwide. His historic 1492 voyages across the Atlantic are widely recognized, but his legacy is fraught ...

These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

Guest Opinion. The story of tobacco in colonial Virginia represents one of the earliest and most significant cases of ...

A major tenet of liberation is having the freedom to define oneself and not be defined by others. This includes the ability ...

New research reveals the bacterium responsible for the sexually transmitted epidemic was active and diverse in the Americas long before Colombus's voyage is hypothesized ... more virulent at some ...

Christopher Columbus' voyage across the Atlantic in 1492 kicked off the Age of Discovery and inaugurated the Spanish Empire. Spanish expansion into the New World came at the point of a gun, a weapon ...

Before Christopher Columbus's arrival in 1492, the Americas were home to advanced civilizations with sophisticated social ...

On Herr Krumbiegel’s watch, some of those trees – the prettiest ones – left the Lalbagh experimental nursery to line ...